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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, oil spill workers scour the beach for tarballs as a a hole is bored in the sand to check for hidden oil in Orange Beach, Ala. With its Macondo well dead and few visitors on the coast during the off season, BP has launched its biggest push yet to deep-clean the tourist beaches that were coated with crude during the worst of the Gulf oil spill. Machines are digging down into the sand to remove buried tar mats left from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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